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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As several gun control measures proposed by Democrats were shot down in the Senate yesterday, the White House continues to look to<a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-obama-gun-order-20151203-story.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #194e8e; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> a possible executive order </a>that would change the meaning of the existing law to force all gun sales, even private ones, to go through the background check system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is unclear how this would be enforced. Currently, it is estimated that upwards of 40% of guns that change hands, do so without background checks. Many are not even sales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In addition, the majority of mass shooters in recent years all actually PASSED background checks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The shooters at Virginia Tech, the Aurora Colorado movie theater, Fort Hood, Isla Vista, the Washington Navy Yard, the attempted mass killing at Arapahoe High School ALL passed background checks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The shooter at Washington Navy Yard even managed to buy his firearm after the background check system was supposedly strengthened following the incident at Virgina Tech.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The BATF has determined that Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the two shooters in San Bernardino, also legally purchased two of the weapons at a gun shop in Corona. Two others were legally purchased and given to him by a friend, federal officials said Thursday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When asked Thursday if he believed that Obama’s proposed executive action on background checks would have prevented the massacre, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said, “Of course not.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ABC News reporter Jon Karl asked, “Did [Obama] have any indication… if Congress instituted stronger background checks, it would have prevented this incident?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Earnest responded, “In this incident, of course not.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“But the president is confident, and I think common-sense-thinking Americans are confident, that if there are things that Congress can do to make it harder for individuals who shouldn’t have guns from getting them, then Congress should act and pass a law accordingly, because that law can be implemented in a way that doesn’t undermine the the constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans,” Earnest added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The reporter kept on at Earnest, asking him why the White House continually says it makes sense to institute more background checks, while admitting that would do nothing to prevent mass shootings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“The president made these comments specifically when asked about this shooting. So I’m wondering why he kind of immediate fell back to Congress needs to pass more gun legislation.” Karl stated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Because the president is determined to ensure that these kinds of incidents of mass shootings aren’t considered routine, and he’s determined to press Congress at every turn to take steps –” Earnest said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“But you just acknowledged that his proposal wouldn’t have done anything to prevent this incident,” Karl replied</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Earnest then again claimed ”we are talking about future incidents,” and added that there are “too many members of Congress that are terrified of the NRA.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The reporter still didn’t let up, asking “What is the relevance to what happened in San Bernardino if the provisions you are talking about, as you acknowledged, would have done nothing to prevent this shooting? Why is it part of this discussion?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Earnest said, “This discussion is about what we can do to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He also claimed that while it is “hypothetical,” tougher background checks “could” prevent terrorist incidents. Earnest did not expand on the point when asked how so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While the Obama administration is seemingly hell bent on going after stricter gun control, research from Pew Research Center, the FBI, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reveals that gun violence in the US is <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/03/thanks-to-cops-gun-violence-lowest-since-1960s/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #194e8e; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">actually on the decline</a>, and is at its lowest since the 1960s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In addition, gun crime, despite an exponential increase in privately owned firearms over the same period, has <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/03/weve-had-a-massive-decline-in-gun-violence-in-the-united-states-heres-why/?tid=sm_tw" style="background-color: transparent; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #194e8e; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">steadily declined for about 20 years,</a>except for high-profile shootings in gun-free zones.</span></div>

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